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Subject:	Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
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On Aug 16 11:35, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> I assumed since cgf worked for Red hat, that his offer to take money
> would go to Red Hat.  My mistake.

Surprise, cgf doesn't work for Red Hat.  Only I do.

> >I'm honestly confused.  Why would it better to have another Cygwin
> >distro maintainer for a package instead of getting the patches included
> >upstream?  This makes no sense at all.  If my head wouldn't be fixed to
> >my neck, it would actually fall down from all the shaking now.
> 
> Because it would be easy.  A small patch and everything goes back
> to the way it was.   I also think this is a unique cygwin issue and
> the upstream maintainers may not be interested in it.  

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00879.html

That doesn't actually sound like the make maintainer is not interested
in patches...


Corinna

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